Digitization

The SAGE Impact Leaders will be both Indian and International students registered at participating institutes. For information on the Junior and Senior Ambassadors, please see: https://sites.google.com/echonetwork.in/sagereport2023/home. The PhD SAGE Fellows will be selected through National and International calls in early 2024. The projects will be supported for three years (a typical PhD fellowship period).

Host Institute: University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU)
Host Academic Supervisor: Tabassum Ishrath Fathima, Assistant Professor, and M. Abdul Kareem, Centre Head and Associate Professor, Centre for Conservation of Natural Resources, University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU)
Co-Project Supervisors:
- Hansika Singh, Director, Socratus Foundation for Collective Wisdom
- Hari Dilip Kumar, Director, SolveSustain
- Joy KJ, Founding Member & Senior Fellow, SOPPECOM Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM)
- Srinath Srinivasa, Professor & Dean (R&D), Indian Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIITB)
- Varun Subramanya, Scientist F, Centre for Traditional Knowledge, Data Science and Informatics, University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU)
Advisors:
- Ganeshram, Research Fellow, Rainmatter Foundation
Contributors:
- Neha Bhadbhade, Research Fellow, Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM)

Aim

A supportive digital ecosystem combining data from the ecosystem stewardship and ecosystem services projects, residual feedstock sidestreams, and sustainable nutrition and production information to support an integrated approach to localized ecologically sustainable rural communities.

Key Objectives

Data mining of existing relevant datasets to show the value provided to ecosystems and communities
Collation of traditional/ indigenous knowledge and practices
Stakeholder mapping to analyze information pathways
Develop a framework for digitization